A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
Eat your porridge while it's hot!
There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.
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A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
3
A dish made of grain or legumes, milk or water, heated and stirred until thick and typically eaten for breakfast.
4
A prison sentence.
Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
5
A type of thick soup or stew, especially thickened with barley.
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Idioms & Phrases
do porridge
Synonym of do time.
Example Bank
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Eat your porridge while it's hot!
Wiktionary
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There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.
Wiktionary
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Just do your porridge and keep your head down.
Wiktionary
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Miss Pizza and Mr Porridge were walking in the woods.
Tatoeba · #1774996
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The old man ate some rice porridge.
Tatoeba · #2326784
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Do you feel like porridge this morning?
Tatoeba · #2500975
Usage Notes
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In some senses, porridge is marked as slang, British, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.